Fotografia de Tiago Miranda In today's edition of Expresso  (December 12, 2025), DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Sandra Marques Pereira , authors a feature essay in the Ideias  supplement, critically analysing the build-to-rent model. Sandra Marques Pereira issues a clear warning regarding the need for caution in drafting new housing policies: "Now that all doors are opening to institutional investors and build-to-rent, some reflection would be advisable: anticipating the risks

The chapter 'Salários dos Jovens em Portugal' (Youth Wages in Portugal), by Paulo Marques , Rita Guimarães and Alexandre Mergulhão has been published in the book Salário Digno em Portugal: Da necessidade à possibilidade de uma política , coordinated by José António Pereirinha and Elvira Pereira. The wages earned by young people have become a topic of significant interest in public and academic debate in Portugal, particularly regarding the salaries of qualified youth. This i

We invite you to the   Final Presentation of the Care(4)Housing project –  A care through design approach to address housing precarity  (“Cuidar d(a) Habitação”), funded by FCT (PTDC/ART-DAQ/0181/2021). The presentation will be held on 15 December at 16:30, at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Avenida das Forças Armadas, 40 Floor 3, Auditorium A302. [ Link to Map ] Since 2022, Care(4)Housing has combined interdisciplinary research with in-depth fieldwork

The DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Catalyst project team has launched a comprehensive suite of eight new training courses within CATALYST network. Designed to foster professional development across varying stages of expertise, the new portfolio offers curriculum options at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. The initiative aims to address key contemporary challenges in the workplace, from data analysis to sustainable management. The beginner-level selection provides a solid found

Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon has been honored with the European Commission’s  HR Excellence in Research  award, a testament to its commitment to the professional development and well-being of its researchers. With this distinction, Iscte becomes the first Portuguese university to receive this prestigious recognition, which had previously only been awarded to one faculty and nine research laboratories in Portugal. This award underscores Iscte’s pioneering role in ele

Mass Higher Education and the Changing Labour Market Graduates: Between Employability and Employment , organized by Fátima Suleman , Pedro Videira , and Pedro N. Teixeira, has been chosen as the Iscte Library’s Book of the Month for December. This work is based on a comparative study regarding the massification of higher education and its consequences for graduate employment and employability. For an overview of the book, please watch this video  or consult the accompanying b

Andrea Pavoni’s chapter ‘Un-mastering Life: Law, Value and Locality in Natural Wine Ontology’ has been published by Springer in the book Uncorked: Negotiating Science and Belief in the Natural Wine Movement . Appearing in the first major scholarly collection on Natural Wine, this chapter probes how this growing phenomenon unsettles what is taken for granted about agency, control, trust, and responsibility in the contemporary wine world, teasing out the ethical possibilities

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte marks the passing of architect Frank Gehry (1929-2025) on December 5. Gehry was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1989. He was the author of major projects such as the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris. For Lisbon, in 2003 he designed the rehabilitation of Parque Mayer, a project that was never built. His architecture left a strong mark on

The article ‘Legislar a orgânica das entidades sob a tutela central da Cultura: evolução do panorama legislativo no período democrático em Portugal’ (Legislating the organics of entities under the central oversight of Culture: Evolution of the legislative landscape in the democratic period in Portugal), by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers Tiago Mendes and Pedro Costa , has been published in the Journal Análise Social . The authors mapped the evolution of the organic configurat

Nuno Grancho , Integrated Researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, has published the chapter 'Public Shared Places and Private Absent Divides. Identity and Space of Colonial Urbanism under Portuguese, French, and Danish Rules: Diu, Pondicherry and Tranquebar' in The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire. The chapter advances a decolonial framework for the study of architecture, urbanism, and empire, drawing on postcolonial, critical race, and feminist theories to examin

Photography by Pedro Ferreira The Routlegde Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology has published the chapter 'Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House', co-authored by DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researchers Sandra Marques Pereira and Tânia Lemos , in collaboration with Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez. This study examines residents’ ways of inhabiting and their perceptions of the particularities of the Bouça Neighbourhood in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza. It does s

We are extremely proud to announce that t he project, ‘A bomba-relógio da abstenção’ (The Abstention Time Bomb), won the Data Journalism Award 2024 from the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística . ‘The Abstention Time Bomb’ is a data research project by ‘Divergente’, in partnership with the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) and the research centre DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte. The study involved the data analysis from 27 European countries over 50 years, mapping the electoral beha

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher Lídia Canha Fernandes , co-authored the chapter ‘ Exclusão Habitacional, Saúde Mental e Novas Substâncias Psicoativas’  (Housing Exclusion, Mental Health and New Psychoactive Substances), with Paulo Vitorino Fontes, Hélder Fernandes, and João Mendes Coelho, for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens , coordinated by Vasco Calado.  This publication, issued by ICAD - Instituto para os Comportamentos Aditivos e Dependências, aims to f

From November 19 to 28, 2025, Iscte – Knowledge and Innovation hosts the Science and Technology Week , featuring a series of events aimed at researchers and PhD candidates. The programme includes conferences, workshops, and training sessions focused on scientific research, innovation, and evidence-based public policy. All sessions are organized by Iscte-KI and the SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy. Admission is free, upon registration. Program me More info and registration h

The International Journal of Public History has published the article: Towards a Public Architectural History: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Engagement in Portugal and Spain Developed by researchers from DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte – Ricardo Costa Agarez , Ana Mehnert Pascoal and Ivonne Herrera-Pineda , the article examines how publicly funded collective-use facilities, built since the mid-twentieth century in Portugal and Spain, continue to shape local life and resilience i

CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios has just released its 50th issue (November 2025), which includes the thematic dossier "Águas que desenham territórios: reinventar os rios nas cidades contemporâneas" (Waters that shape territories: reinventing rivers in contemporary cities), organized by Nagayamma Aragão, Luciana Bragança, Diego Torres, Natasha Cabrera and Sergio Caruso.   Maria Assunção Gato Editor   Ana Rita Cruz Deputy Editor   Mariana Leite Braga Editorial Assistant & C

Location:  Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa | Building 1 | Auditório JJ Laginha Date:   November 27 - 28, 2025 The conference  Shaping the Future of Data, Knowledge and Innovation with AI for Global Sustainable Change , promoted with the support of CoVE Future Skills Factory , will be held at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, between November 27- 28, 2025. The event will feature   Jay Liebowitz  and Vânia Neto as Keynote Speakers, joining efforts with GFIC

On 18 November 2025, Ricardo Costa Agarez will present and discuss the Arquitectura Aqui  initiative ( https://arquitecturaaqui.eu/ ) at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Auditorium 306, at 6 P.M., marking the conclusion of the first semester of the Doctoral Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories 2025/2026. We all live, work, study and enjoy ourselves in spaces about which we know little. If we know more and better, and if this

The Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development has published the article: Connecting adaptive reuse with cultural resilience frameworks: assessing monastic and conventual heritage in Southern Portugal.   Developed by researchers from DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte and CIES-iscte, from Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, the article explores how adaptive reuse of monastic and conventual heritage in low-density rural areas—specifically in the Alentejo region—

Location:  Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Building 2, Auditorium B302 Date:  12 November 2025 Time:  3:00 PM Admission:  Free As part of the PhD Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon is pleased to host the conference: O Jardim de Epicuro e o Realismo da Nova Arquitetura Portuguesa ( The Garden of Epicurus and the Realism of the New Portuguese Architecture). The session will take place on 12 November

Location:  Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Building 1, Auditorium 0NE02 - Caiano Pereira Date:  11 November 2025 Time:  6:00 PM Admission:  Free To mark the 50th anniversary of the Biophsyical and Landscape Planning Course, which began on 11 November 1975 at the University of Évora, and as part of Transnational Thematic Laboratories of the PhD in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Landscape Architect Aurora